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That is fine. Not sure that my arguing that my eyes not agreeing with the metrics is a ray imitation, if anything it's an SBB imitation.

Of course, I flat out admitted that my view is limited to a very small sample size, and that I'm not judging him in any way....but continue to do your impression of someone being wronged. (do you need BJ Thomas music for your walk up song?)

I just logged in to say that I want to strangle Farrell for his over-reliance on Brandon Workman. 6.16 ERA and .852 OPS against in relief (going up after today). Can we please stop pretending he has any business pitching high leverage innings.

I just logged in to say that I want to strangle Farrell for his over-reliance on Brandon Workman. 6.16 ERA and .852 OPS against in relief (going up after today). Can we please stop pretending he has any business pitching high leverage innings.

but also a 3-1 K rate and almost 10 k/9. This team badly needs a 4th high-lev reliever and this is a good time to audition them. Wish he was doing better, though.

The Red Sox seem very short on right-handed relievers. They have Rubby and Webster on the bench, but those guys shouldn't be pitching late in a close game. They should at least call up Anthony Carter.

Or if the manager wasn't a moron he'd use Tazawa over Workman to pitch the 8th inning. Tazawa is a closer quality RHRP, but he blew a few games last month and now Farrell doesn't trust him with a 1 run lead. Instead he trusts the guy with an ERA over 7 now as a reliever. Farrell is just an idiot with no ability to make logical decisions in the heat of the game.

Did you not see the capital letters I've been burning? Besides, for a fan of a team, pretty much every loss is excruciating.

The 2008 Mets say hello.

It would be cathartic for someone to create a stat for this. Maybe most games with more than 50% negative WPA after the 6th inning?

There are different kinds of excruciating losses, I actually find the ones where you jump out to an early lead, slowly bleed it away and then lose on a big blow late to be the worst. That slow erosion of confidence and then final kick in the nuts is just a special combo.

so what's the belief among card fans? that he will hit for about 5 years before losing it?

That seems to be the Chris Duncan path for Cardinals prospects who hit the majors around age 25, but Adams looks a lot different from them. He has a quick, compact swing, and some Cardinals fans think he could be a monster for that reason. But he's also got some issues with strike zone judgment or pitch recognition, I'm not sure which (and maybe they're the same thing anyway). It helps that he's LH, so he should at the very least have a role terrorizing the generic sinker/slider guys.

Ryu was skipped in his last turn, and Scully announced in the first inning after he gave up some hits that "he does not look long for this game." He made it thru 6 innings with 89 pitches. He gave up 3 runs, but it wasn't on bad pitches.

(I'm not saying Scully was exactly wrong about Ryu; he did seem to struggle, and the leadoff man got on in almost every inning against him, so he had to grind. Ryu didn't look sharp, and that has to be a concern for LAD.

Then again, when talking about AZ catcher Tuffy Gosewisch, Scully quipped "he had to be 'tuff' he spent nine years in the minors, waiting for his [sic] plance to chay." I love listening to Vin, and I feel like I'm criticizing Mike Schmidt in his 1989 season, but isn't it time? Not that he's anywhere near as bad as Harry Caray was in the last, oh, decade or so of his career. And I love the WWII references tonight. And the reference to baseball-reference.com but I just don't want to be there when he calls people by the wrong name or he dies mid-rundown, alright?)